How to Anticipate a Burning Platform
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 11, 2012
The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy.
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